hard-handed
adjective
oppressive or tyrannical; stern or cruel.
hardhanded
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a variation of
hard-handed.
Example Sentences
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A hulking, hardhanded man with a severe Stalin-style mustache, Gorky is best remembered for his grinding portraits of working-class life in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution.
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Tracy is a hardhanded Irish-American priest whose parish is a small French-owned island in the South Pacific.
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One national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary.
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But it is Trevor Howard, as Paul's hardhanded father, who gives the film's best performance.
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Though he went on painting portraits for a living, he spent his spare time turning out weird pictures of hardhanded, black-skinned coffee workers.
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